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Viewpoint: Tomorrow will be even better — in Singapore
Whilst much of the world is still in the throes of a major economic recession, 1984 is proving another very good year for Singapore. In the first six months growth rate was up by…
Running effective meetings
Terry FarnsworthFor many managers, departmental meetings are a cross to be borne rather than an opportunity to be grasped — a time‐wasting diversion from the job of managing. Yet, if properly…
Strasburg is not Solihull, but …
John TomlinsonThe transition from Solihull College of Technology to the European Parliament in Strasburg is every bit as great a contrast as that which I recorded for Education & Training ten…
Call for investment in people
Geoffrey HollandIt is the exception rather than the rule for a firm in this country to treat investment in people on a par with investment in technology, plant or machinery. Technologies in which…
ABE SUPPLEMENT
With this theme, the thirteenth Conference of the International Federation of Training & Development Organisations was held in Sydney, Australia in August. ABE was privileged to…
Student section
Examiners Reports — June 1984 Business Communications — Certificate Part 1. The comments made in the previous report still hold good: the gap between the best and poorest scripts…
Careers:: COURSES
Northern Telecom, the second largest designer and manufacturer of telecommunications equipment in North America and sixth in the world, has introduced the Northern Telecom Five…
Careers:: TRAINING
Just published by Longman Resources Unit, is aimed at organisations involved in solving the problems of youth unemployment, particularly in urban areas. The Youth Education…
Personnel Management
Kathy HayThe development of effective personnel management is one of the stated aims of the Institute of Personnel Management (IPM), the UK's professional association of personnel…
The challenge for personnel management
David FarnhamThe greatest changes in personnel activities since the late 1970s are in industrial relations, High unemployment, low growth and widespread redundancies, for example, are leading…
Can we change other people's behaviour?
Lyndon Jones, Denys PageThe balance of consequences can be used to analyse and change people's behaviour. The following structural approach may be used:
New patterns of working relationships
John AtkinsonInability to adjust labour forces quickly and smoothly to changes in the product market has been a key characteristic of UK firms in the period up to 1980. The persistent…
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